Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights general secretary GAWAIN LITTLE discusses the impact of the US-Israeli war on the Iranian people and economy
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NICK WRIGHT argues that the deep ideological malaise in ruling-class free-market thinking does not mean that a lacklustre, centrist Labour Party can just expect their turn to govern without some vision for a changed society
Asked to choose between Johnson and Starmer on who would make the best prime minister the clear majority thought “neither” — with a larger margin of opinion convinced that Johnson wouldn’t. More than twice as many people (55 per cent) think Starmer doesn’t look like a prime-minister in waiting than the 25 per cent who do.
Capitalism has extracted itself from crisis before, argues PRABHAT PATNAIK – but through methods no longer available. So it is turning to authoritarianism, militarism and neocolonialism
The five young men killed in the A66 crash were responsible for a devastating tragedy — but the crash should force us to ask difficult questions about wider society, argues RENATA MEDEIROS MIRRA
Britain funds the policing of black culture 16 times better than the culture itself. The Diamond Jubilee is the moment to end that, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite Andy Burnham’s declaration defending the continued partition of the island, all major international and internal trends are converging to make Irish reunification inevitable
Humans are part of the ‘animal kingdom’ – and of nature in general – but also distinct from it and labour (work) is part of what makes us unique, declared Engels. His insights 150 years ago into how our species came to be and how we differ from the rest of nature, are as important today as they were then, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
AS the days get longer the Health Security Agency has suggested that the latest coronavirus variant, omicron, appears less likely to cause a serious illness or result in hospitalisation than the previously dominant variant.
One conclusion reached on the right of politics is that the threat from Covid is overblown and infection is now no more serious than a minor affliction. This is the unstated but underlying thinking of the “no constraints on business” faction.
If omicron has a reduced effect on some of the infected than earlier variants then this is good news for those individuals.
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